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"Our nature wasn't originally the same as it is now: it has changed. Firstly, there used to be three human genders, not just male and female as there are nowadays. There was also a third which was a combination of the other two. In those days, there was a distinct type of androgynous person, the gender combined male and female. Each persons shape was complete: they were round,with their backs and sides forming a circle. They had four hands and the same nunber of legs, and two absolutely identical faces on a cylindrical neck. They had a single head for their two faces,four ears,two sets of genitals, and every other part of their bodies was how you'd imagine it on the basis of what I've said. The reason there were three genders, and the reason they were as they were, is that the original parents of the male gender was the sun, and that of the female gender was the the earth and that of the combined gender was the moon, because the moon is a combination of the sun and the earth. The circularity of their shape was due to the fact that they took after their parents. Now their strength and power were terrifying, and they were also highly ambitious. They even had a go at the gods. Homer's story about how ephialtes and optus tried to mount up to heaven and attack the gods is really about them. So Zeus and the rest of the gods met in council to decide what to do with them. After thinking long and hard about it, Zeus said "i think i can see a way for the human race to exist but to be weakened enough to start behaving with some moderation. What im going to do is split every single one of them into two halves; then they'll be weaker, they'll walk about upright on two legs." With those words he cut every member of the human race in half. Then he told told apollo to twist every divided person's face and half neck towards the gash, the idea being that the sight of their own wounds would make people behave more moderately in the future. He also told apollo to generally heal their wounds. It was their very essence that had been split in two so each half missed its other half and tried to be with it; they threw their arms around each other in an embrace and longed to be grafted together. As a result, because they refused to do anything without their other halves, they died of starvation and general apathy. If one of a pair died while the other half was left alive, the survivor went in search of another survivor to embrace, and it didn't matter to it whether the half that it fell with was the half of a female whole or a male whole. Under these circumstances, they were beginning to die out. Zeus took pity on them, and came up with an ingenious idea: he changed the position of their genitals to the front and introduced intercoirse between the two human beings. So thats how, all that time ago, our innate sexual drive arose. Love draws our original nature back together. And so we are human tallies, constantly searching for our counterparts. Now, when someone actually meet his other half, it's an overwhelming experience. Its impossible to describe the affection,warmth, and love they feel for each other; its hardly an exaggeration to say they dont want to spend even a moment apart. These are the people who form unbroken lifelong relationships together. Anyone who has brought love round to his side will find, as if by chance, the love of his life, which is a rare event at the moment. We human beings will never attain happiness unless we find perfect love, unless we each come across the love of our lives and thereby recover our original nature. In the context of this ideal, the best thing is to get as close to the ideal as possible, and one can do this by finding the person who is his heart's delight."
